You are what you eatSCIENCE OF FOOD: The science, the ethics and the art of food are on the menu in a new exhibition at the Science Gallery, writes UNA MULLALLY
Who lives in a home like this?THERE IS a gold rush under way but not one that yields the bright yellow metal. It is a “bio gold rush”, one that delivers riches of a different sort.
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- Revealing the complex chemistry of love
There are some good, bad and ugly factors involved in assessing the merits of sexual reproduction, researchers at the Perception Lab in St Andrew’s University in Scotland have discovered, writes CLAIRE O'CONNELL
- Mating song of old cricket recalled
SMALL PRINT: IT’S INTRIGUING to see reconstructions from fossils of how animals looked in ages gone by. But what did they sound like? A new study claims to have reconstructed the sound made by a now-extinct bushcricket that lived 165 million years ago.
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Fight or flight?BENTZ (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Conflicts as drivers of innovation.
Radio “giant”KOZIEL-WIERZBOWSKA (Jagiellonian University in Krakow): the origin of the largest object in the Universe has been uncovered.
Surviving the Deep FreezeFERREIRA MENDES (University of Coimbra): can plants help us make better bone grafts?
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- French film ban raises autism issue
ON JANUARY 26th last, a court in the French town of Lille ordered that a documentary film be censored and removed from the internet.
- Showing animals the way
MANY ANIMALS perform amazing feats of navigation. A magnetic sense that plays an important role in navigation has been documented in dozens of species, eg homing pigeons, sea turtles, robins, lobsters, honeybees, ants, mole rats, elephant seals and bacteria, writes WILLIAM REVILLE
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Origin of a 'speed gene' in horsesA ‘SPEED GENE’ in thoroughbred horses can be traced back to a single British mare that lived in the United Kingdom around 300 years ago, according to findings published online this week in Nature Communications . This so-called “speed gene” is a variant of the myostatin gene, which plays a role in muscle development. The makeup of this gene in thoroughbreds can be a predictor of how they are likely to perform over different distances.
- A trick of the light?
WHEN INTENSE light shines into your eye your pupils typically reduce in size automatically to help protect the retina at the back of the eye. But could that happen when you see an image that merely gives the illusion of being bright?
